Darkness

Most people will tell you that there is no reason to be afraid of the dark; that there is nothing in the dark that wasn’t there in the daylight. Some would even argue that you are safer in the dark because it’s easier to hide. I for one am a firm believer in this logic. Yet there is a reason for every fear mankind seems to share as a whole. A lot of people have the same “irrational” fears. Why does mankind seem to be born with a fear of darkness? Could it be that at some point in man’s history there was something in the dark that wasn’t there in the light? Something to fear? Or is it that our seemingly instinctual fear of the dark is due to the darkness itself. What if at some point in time darkness became self-aware and threatened the life of any living being it came into contact with; each victim’s suffering and death happening in a different way as if Hell had been unleashed. If it happened once it could happen again. Now it’s happening to you…